Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe Sheroana, Venezuela, b. 1971

Born in a small Yanomami Indigenous community in the Venezuelan Amazon, Hakihiiwe began making paper from natural fibres in the 1990s, a skill he learned by studying with the Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata. The artist’s work now consists primarily of drawings and paintings on handmade paper. He draws from his ancestral knowledge of the signs and symbols of Yanomami culture, and their decorative application in basketry and body painting for ritual ceremonies. His work forms a rapidly growing visual lexicon, or library, of Yanomami visual culture. Hakihiiwe’s drawings and paintings reveal his beliefs, rites and traditions as well as his close relationship to the natural world.

Exhibiting extensively, Hakihiiwe’s work has been shown in several solo presentations, including Thapiri/Sonho at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo, Brazil, 2026); Wayamou: Lenguas de lo común at Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico, 2026); Riprosipe thamou hithithiwe at ABRA (Caracas, Venezuela, 2026); Ihirama [Drought] at PROXYCO (New York, US, 2024); and Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe: All This Is Us, curated by André Mesquita, at Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) (São Paulo, Brazil, 2023). Hakihiiwe was also selected for The Milk of Dreams, the main exhibition at the LIX Venice Biennale in 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Other recent group shows include: This is America: Selections from PAMM’s Collections at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) (Miami, US, 2026); What Comes Next at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo, Brazil, 2026); Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, US, 2026); and Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Looks at Artium Museoa (Araba, Spain, 2026). Cecilia Brunson Projects represents Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe in the UK and works in close coordination with Galería Abra, the global representative of the artist.

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